The Lodger (1927), Betrayed (2018), Hard-Boiled (1992), Number 37 (2018), The Absent One (2014), Cure (1997), Terror at the Opera (1987), Prince of the City (1981) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Detective movies.
Storyline: Villains kidnap a Hong Kong policeman's (Jackie Chan) girlfriend (Maggie Cheung) as he investigates a bombing/extortion scheme.
Plot Keywords: crime boss, detective, cop, girlfriend, police officer, thrilling, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Gathered in a warehouse after a bank robbery, six criminals (Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Sunil Shetty) start to turn against one another.
Plot Keywords: detective, wife, army major, criminal, drug dealer, undercover cop, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 1950's Los Angeles is the seedy backdrop for this intricate noir-ish tale of police corruption and Hollywood sleaze. Three very different cops are all after the truth, each in their own style: Ed Exley, the golden boy of the police force, willing to do almost anything to get ahead, except sell out; Bud White, ready to break the rules to seek justice, but barely able to keep his raging violence under control; and Jack Vincennes, always looking for celebrity and a quick buck until his conscience drives him to join Exley and White down the one-way path to find the truth behind the dark world of L.A. crime.
Plot Keywords: police officer, detective, journalist, mobster, prostitute, actor, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A meticulous detective (Morgan Freeman) and the young officer (Brad Pitt) about to replace the veteran probe serial murders based on the seven deadly sins.
Plot Keywords: police officer, detective, serial killer, wife, police chief, dark, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1937 Los Angeles, private investigator Jake 'J.J.' Gittes specializes in cheating-spouse cases. His current target is Hollis Mulwray, high-profile chief engineer for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, whose wife suspects him of infidelity. In following Mulwray, Gittes witnesses some usual business dealings, such as a public meeting for construction of a new dam to create additional water supply for Los Angeles, as fresh water is vital to the growing community during the chronic drought; Mulwray opposes the dam. Eventually Gittes sees Mulwray meeting with an unknown young woman who isn't his wife. Once news of the supposed tryst between Mulwray and this woman hits the media, additional information comes to light that makes Gittes believe that Mulwray is being framed for something and that he himself is being set up. In his investigation of the issue behind Mulwray's framing and his own setup, Gittes is assisted by Mulwray's wife Evelyn, but he thinks she isn't being ...
Plot Keywords: detective, widow, father, sister, private investigator, wife, disturbing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In London, wealthy Margot Mary Wendice had a brief love affair with the American writer Mark Halliday while her husband and professional tennis player Tony Wendice was on a tennis tour. Tony quits playing to dedicate to his wife and finds a regular job. She decides to give him a second chance for their marriage. When Mark arrives from America to visit the couple, Margot tells him that she had destroyed all his letters but one that was stolen. Subsequently she was blackmailed, but she had never retrieved the stolen letter. Tony arrives home, claims that he needs to work and asks Margot to go with Mark to the theater. Meanwhile Tony calls Captain Lesgate (aka Charles Alexander Swann who studied with him at college) and blackmails him to murder his wife, so that he can inherit her fortune. But there is no perfect crime, and things do not work as planned.
Plot Keywords: tennis player, wife, writer, criminal, detective, intellectual, frightening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Nick and Nora Charles (William Powell, Myrna Loy) visit a Long Island estate, where Nick drinks Scotch and solves murders.
Plot Keywords: detective, socialite, son, dog, wife, suspenseful, witty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After documenting the taboo word that it shows Socialism has historically been in the US, the film argues it is way past time to replace the failed capitalist economic system.
Plot Keywords: detective, murder suspect, creepy, uneasy, thrilling, forest, camp ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: How far would you go to protect your family? Keller Dover is facing every parent's worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy, and as minutes turn to hours, panic sets in. The only lead is a dilapidated RV that had earlier been parked on their street. Heading the investigation, Detective Loki arrests its driver, Alex Jones, but a lack of evidence forces his release. As the police pursue multiple leads and pressure mounts, knowing his child's life is at stake the frantic Dover decides he has no choice but to take matters into his own hands. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?
Plot Keywords: father, daughter, young girl, best friend, detective, suspect, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based upon a real-life story that happened in the early seventies in which the Chase Manhattan Bank in Gravesend, Brooklyn, was held siege by a bank robber determined to steal enough money for his wife (a trans woman) to undergo a sex change operation. On a hot summer afternoon, the First Savings Bank of Brooklyn is held up by Sonny and Sal, two down-and-out characters. Although the bank manager and female tellers agree not to interfere with the robbery, Sonny finds that there's actually nothing much to steal, as most of the cash has been picked up for the day. Sonny then gets an unexpected phone call from Police Captain Moretti, who tells him the place is surrounded by the city's entire police force. Having few options under the circumstances, Sonny nervously bargains with Moretti, demanding safe escort to the airport and a plane out of the country in return for the bank employees' safety.
Plot Keywords: bank robber, detective, wife, lover, fbi agent, tense, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Rodent supersleuth Basil and his bumbling partner must thwart evil Ratigan's plot to depose the Mouse Queen.
Plot Keywords: mouse, rat, detective, sherlock holmes, professor, inventor, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: College student Yagami (Tatsuya Fujiwara) possesses a Death Note, a magical notebook that kills anyone whose name is written on its pages. Though he tries to use the notebook only to wipe out criminals, he's tempted to use it for less noble purposes. Yagami's life is complicated by a police investigation, led by the determined teen detective L (Ken'ichi Matsuyama), into the identity of a vigilante killer. TV star Miss Amane (Erika Toda), who also holds a Death Note, proves equally troublesome.
Plot Keywords: father, television star, detective, vigilante, police officer, college student, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Detective Virgil Tibbs is caught up in the racial tension of the US South when he is arrested after the murder of a prominent businessman. Tibbs was simply waiting for his next train at the station in Sparta, Mississippi and the confusion is soon resolved but when local police chief Gillespie learns that Tibbs is the Philadelphia PD's number one homicide expert, he reluctantly asks for his assistance. The murdered man, Mr. Colbert, had come to Sparta from the North to build a new factory and his wife and business associates immediately point the finger at Endicott, the most powerful man in the county and the one who had the most to lose if a major new employer comes to the area. Tibbs' life is clearly in danger but he perseveres in a highly charged and racially explosive environment until the killer is found.
Plot Keywords: detective, police officer, wealthy man, widow, cool, tense, small town ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A visiting actress in Washington, D.C., notices dramatic and dangerous changes in the behavior and physical make-up of her 12-year-old daughter. Meanwhile, a young priest at nearby Georgetown University begins to doubt his faith while dealing with his mother's terminal sickness. And, book-ending the story, a frail, elderly priest recognizes the necessity for a show-down with an old demonic enemy.
Plot Keywords: priest, actress, psychiatrist, doctor, detective, daughter, creepy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The wife and mistress of a sadistic boarding school headmaster plot to kill him. They drown him in the bathtub and dump the body in the school's filthy swimming pool... but when the pool is drained, the body has disappeared - and subsequent reported sightings of the headmaster slowly drive his 'killers' (and the audience) up the wall with almost unbearable suspense...
Plot Keywords: teacher, headmaster, detective, wife, mistress, suspenseful, tense ...
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